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Neil M. Soltman, Mayer Brown LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellant.

Kathryn Lee Boyd, Schwarcz, Rimberg, Boyd & Rader, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Mark J. Geragos, Geragos & Geragos, APC, Los Angeles, CA; and Richard L. Kellner, Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellees.

David M. Balabanian, Bingham McCutchen LLP, San Francisco, CA; David Saltzman, Saltzman & Evinch, PC, Washington, D.C.; Marco Simons, Earthrights International, Washington, D.C.; Antonette Benita Cordero, Deputy Attorney General, Los Angeles, CA; and Igor V. Timofeyev, Paul Hastings LLP, Washington, D.C., for the amici curiae.

Before: ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, MARY M. SCHROEDER, STEPHEN REINHARDT, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, SUSAN P. GRABER, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, RAYMOND C. FISHER, RICHARD A. PAEZ, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

GRABER, Circuit Judge:

Section 354.4 of the California Code of Civil Procedure vests California courts with jurisdiction over certain insurance claims brought by "Armenian Genocide victim[s]" and extends the statute of limitations for such claims. Under that statute, individual Plaintiffs, including Vazken…